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How can I avoid the prompts when installing a FreeBSD port?
When I install a port, I am often presented with a menu screen to select configuration options. If I'm going to install a really big package with lots of dependencies, that will be extremely ...
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How to deal with FreeBSD's move to pkgconf?
It seems that the FreeBSD ports tree is busy transitioning from pkg-config to pkgconf. http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-ports-announce@freebsd.org/msg00018.html
I first thought as an end user this ...
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Where can I find a log file that logs ports error messages in FreeBSD?
I looked in /var/log/ but there isn't any log files that records ports log, and I just found this person asking the same thing in other forum and get an answer which stating there is no such file. If ...
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Bash port auto upgrading script in cron doesn't work properly?
I've been recently try to write a script to automate checks for new version of ports and software installed on my FreeBSD server. This script is added to root's crontab and fires daily. If I run it ...
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How to check whether firewall opened for a port but not listening on the port
We will be deploying a new application to a Server and the application will be listening on port 8443. We have asked Network team to open the firewall for the port 8443 on that server before deploying ...
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Find FreeBSD ports that depend on another port
I have a headless FreeBSD server where some port has installed tons of X11-related packages. I would like to find out what these ports are so I can get rid of the unwanted X-related packages. Is there ...
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FreeBSD: Mixing packages and ports?
I would like to build the newest port of Firefox (version 4.0.1,1). I currently have the package version installed (3.6.13). How well does the packages/port system handle mixing ports and packages? ...
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Is there a port list migration command set for FreeBSD?
On debianized linux distros there is dpkg --get-selections, dpkg --set-selections, dpkg -C to respectively list installed packages, select a list of packages for installations, and list packages that ...
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How do I recursively apply PKGREPOSITORY when calling make package-recursive in FreeBSD?
I'm trying to create a package of Apache and its dependencies:
sudo make package-recursive \
__MAKE_CONF=~/make.apache22.conf \
PKGREPSOITORY=/usr/home/gvkv
Everything works fine; Apache and its ...
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FreeBSD: Getting pkg_add to use stable packages rather than release packages?
Using FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE. I want to use the latest binary packages rather than the packages at the time of the 8.2 release. That is, I want to use packages in ...
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tcsh alias - find FreeBSD port
I am trying to create an alias for tcsh. I would like to find a program in ports (FreeBSD ports).
So far I made an alias, which works, but finds only ports which end in *port_name. I would like it to ...
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FreeBSD 9.0 install NOT configuring ports
We have a new FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE with a ports tree generated via portsnap and none of the ports perform make config.
To some degree it is behaving as though BATCH=yes was set. However, that variable ...
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What does port mean in context of a shell in unix?
From the book Advanced Programming in the Unix environment:
Linux uses the Bourne-again shell for its default shell. In
fact,/bin/sh is a link to /bin/bash.The default user shell in FreeBSD
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Is there a simple flag to prevent installing X and anything that depends on it via ports?
I'm running FreeBSD in a small VMWare image and I want to keep it headless. Is there a setting someplace that will guarantee I never pull in X as a dependency, or will I have to rely solely on eternal ...
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Ephemeral port : What is it and what does it do?
I suddenly came across the term "ephemeral port" in a Linux article that I was reading, but the author did not mention what it is.
What is an ephemeral port in UNIX?
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Enforce strict outbound ports (or ranges) for protocol
Is it possible to narrow the allowed range of outbound ports that can be used for a specific protocol (e.g. HTTP(S))? I understand that, by default, the system will randomly allocate any available ...
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How to change a *.tbz's +INSTALL file, and repack the package in FreeBSD, without installing the package
I am running on FreeBSD 8.2, I have a device that will run NanoBSD 7.4. To install packages for nanobsd, you put them in /usr/src/tools/tools/nanobsd/Pkg, and uncomment the line in your config.
I ...
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Why isn't hydra being disconnected?
I have SSHD running on port 5800 on some machine. (It is a my machine at home.)
If I run this manually in a terminal:
# ssh someIP -p 5800
The connection is lost because I am disconnected after 3 ...
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Cannot get ccache to work with ports in FreeBSD
I'm new to FreeBSD (9.1) and I'm just setting up the system. One problem that I could not solve yet is to get ccache working. I installed it from ports and followed the guidelines in the documentation ...
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How to connect to port immedeately, avoiding socket_bind(): unable to bind address?
When running a code that is supposed to read from a TCP/IP port I often get the following message (depending exactly what language have been used):
socket_bind(): unable to bind address
I know that ...
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1answer
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“Too many arguments to function” error while installing php5-pdo_mysql from ports in FreeBSD
I'm having a trouble while installing php5-pdo_mysql in my FreeBSD environment.
Everytime I trys to do /usr/ports/databases/php5-pdo_mysql make install
the console gives me this error:
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No ports can be found using port scan
Problem:
I have a laptop and a server (Home-Server) with fc17. They are both using the desktop environment. I am trying to set up a VNC server on Home-Server so that I can set everything up without ...
